Oscar Wilde Quotes
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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One should always be a little improbable.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.